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A scientist's dream of making alien contact finally comes true, but will others destroy it?

Program data

Duration:
150

Production Year:
1997

MBC Max:

July 22, 201513:30 (KSA) ~
July 22, 201512:30 (CLT)

Dr.
Ellie Arroway(Jodie Foster) has dedicated her career to the discovery of alien
life forms, inspired in part by her father's untimely death. She works at a laboratory whose large antenna
constantly monitors space for potential radio signals. Politicians see little use in funding such a
seeminglytrivial project.

But
then Ellie makes 'contact.' She manages
to decode signals from space, and they are instructions to build a mysterious
machine that no one knows the purpose of.
Could this machine enlighten humanity or initiate its doom? Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a
religious colleague, believes the latter while Ellie remains steadfast in
searching for alien life.

Contact
was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
It earned $171 million at the box office.